325Cramer - Rubrics

What are they? Why create them?
Rubrics are one type of assessment tool. They tell what level of expectations the assignment is to meet. They are most powerful when students and teachers develop them together and come to a shared understanding of expectations and what excellence looks like. Build your rubric around your standards to keep assignments, expectations and evaluation aligned.

Individual assignments are often scored using rubrics. Increasingly report cards are also looking like rubrics.
Standards based report card samples --
Milwaukee Public Schools, samples for grades PK3-8

Your assignment:

Create a Rubric page. Tell what rubrics are and why use them.
Ideas: No need to locate two articles/videos. Your methods courses should be discussing rubric use.
Sample: Create a sample rubric with a minimum of 4 criteria you will evaluate to see how tool works.
Use Rubistar -- an online rubric development tool http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ Post rubric on page as a jpg and pdf along with Rubistar website address.
Optional: Check out For All Rubrics -- they have rubrics aligned to the Common Core
Thoughts: Use this tool when you plan your unit to create rubrics to go with each technology rich assignment you create.